Seamen's Church Institute of New York and New Jersey

The Seamen's Church Institute (SCI) of New York & New Jersey, founded in 1834 by Charles Sherman Haight Sr. and affiliated with the Episcopal Church, serves mariners through education, pastoral care, and legal advocacy. With a budget of over $6 million, SCI is the largest, most comprehensive mariners’ agency in North America. Headquartered in New York City, the Institute operates seafarers’ centers in Port Newark, and maritime education facilities in Paducah, KY and Houston, TX.

Annually, its chaplains visit more than 2,400 vessels in the Port of New York and New Jersey and along American inland waterways.

SCI provides free legal advice for merchant mariners worldwide and advocates for their rights to the United States Government, including the United States Congress, the Department of Homeland Security and the US Coast Guard, as well as the United Nations, the International Maritime Organization, the International Labour Organization and maritime trade associations.

SCI instructors provide professional development and educational programs for inland, coastal, and deep-sea mariners using simulator training facilities at SCI-Paducah and SCI-Houston.

SCI's Christmas at Sea program provides more than 20,000 hand-knit gifts to mariners at the holidays.

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